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Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…

Happy Caregivers May Help Dementia Patients Stay Alive

Compassionate Love Quiz

Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…

Why Health Professionals Should Cultivate Gratitude

Gratitude Quiz

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding…

Three Things I Learned from Teaching Happiness

Mindfulness Quiz

For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…

Are Emotions Born or Made?

Connection to Humanity Quiz

Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…

How Awe Brings People Together

Awe Quiz

When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…

How Looking at Puppies Can Improve Your Marriage

Social Capital Quiz

Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…

Three Surprising Insights about Success and Happiness

Stress and Anxiety Quiz

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…

Why Kids Need to Learn How to Forgive

Forgiveness Quiz

The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…

What to Do When You Hate the One You Love

Empathy Quiz

Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…

Three Surprising Insights about Success and Happiness

Altruism Quiz